The Amiga kinetic paintings are programs coded by Samia Halaby between 1986 and 1989 using the programming languages Basic and C on a Commodore Amiga 1000. Bigsinray, 1987 (Programmed in C) offers vivid, coloured geometric shapes and lines that shift across the picture plane of the screen. These early developments in technology allowed Halaby to consider painting in a far more expanded sense and explore new forms of language and abstraction. She has said of these developments ‘My mathematician sister, Nahida Halaby Gordon, visited in late 1986 and taught me a few tricks. She showed me how to do a sine wave. This is where the ‘sin’ in Bigsinray came from. I am still exploring shapes and lines and beginning to find ways to gracefully move in time from one set of events to another.'